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Samuel HICKS
bp. 18 Aug 1611, London, England, the son of Robert and Margaret HICKS
m. 11 Sep 1645 at Plymouth, MA
d. probably during King Phillip's War (1675-76)

Lydia DOANE
b. unknown, the daughter of John DOANE
d. after 1665

Samuel was baptized at St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey parish, London. He came to America with his mother and siblings in 1623 aboard the Anne, with his father coming across the Atlantic earlier in the Fortune (1621).

After their marriage in Plymouth, the family moved to Eastham, back to Plymouth, then to Barnstable in 1662 and to Dartmouth by 1666 (a founder of that town).

Samuel was likely a Quaker.

Children of Samuel and Lydia Hicks (b. in Plymouth):

1. Thomas Hicks, b. about 1646; d. 1698. He m. Mary ALBRO about 1670. He lived in Dartmouth, MA and Portsmouth, RI. They had children Sarah, Thomas, Samuel, Ephraim, Susanna, Abigail, Elizabeth.
2. Sarah Hicks, b. about 1648.
3. Samuel Hicks, b. about 1650.
4. Dorcas Hicks, b. 14 Feb 1651/52. She m. Edmund SHERMAN.
5. Margaret Hicks, b. 9 Mar 1653/54.
6. Robert Hicks, d. before 29 Sep 1716. He m. Isabel (SAYLES) TILLINGHAST after Dec 1690.
7. John Hicks. He m. Deborah ALMY about 1690. They had children John, Robert, Mary, Elizabeth, and Deborah.
8. Joseph Hicks. He m. about 1692. He had children Grace, Joseph, Elizabeth, Gabriel, Sarah, William, Prudence, Benjamin, Marcy.

References

Hodge, Harriet Woodbury. Hicks (Hix) Families of Rehoboth and Swansea, Massachussetts. Published by author, 325 Woodland Avenue, Winnetka, Illinois 60093 (1976). Copy in Allen County Public Library, Ft. Wayne, IN.
 
 

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